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Today’s the Day the NSA’s Permission to Collect Verizon Metadata Runs Out

The NSA’s legal ability to collect Verizon metadata expires today, but what happens next nobody knows

How Other Cities Avoided Detroit’s Fate

Many places manage to avoid actually filing for bankruptcy, despite being in dire straits

Alzheimer’s Patients Often Self-Diagnose Years Before Doctors Do

In a study of 200 older people, researchers found that those who reported the most memory problems had the highest levels of beta amyloid in their brain

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Smile! A Satellite Around Saturn Is About To Take Your Picture

NASA is taking of Earth as seen from Saturn

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What’s Killing Florida’s Manatees This Time?

What’s behind the mysterious deaths of more than a hundred of Florida’s manatees?

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This Town Has Spent 11 Years Planning a 60 Foot Lava Lamp

Everybody loves lava lamps. But perhaps nobody loves lava lamps quite as much as the town of Soap Lake, Washington

Honeybee Theft Is on the Rise

Some beekeepers are working towards making tiny trackers for bees to locate them when they are stolen, but there’s no “find my queen” app just yet

We’re not lying. It’s really in this photo.

Can You Spot the Mars Rover in This Gorgeous Photo?

It’s in there somewhere, we swear!

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Some Dinosaurs Grew New Teeth Every Couple of Months

Sauropods were the largest animals ever to live and their constantly replaced teeth helped them avoid wear from the greens they constantly munched on

The Trinity University pitch drop setup

After 69 Years, Second Oldest Pitch Drop Experiment Observes Drop

After 69 years, the pitch has finally dropped

An Icelandic Artist Accuses a German Contemporary of “Nature Terrorism”

In February, somebody painted words on some of Iceland’s most pristine landscapes

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The CIA May Have Taken Cues From 1960s-Era James Bond

CIA director Allen Dulles admired James Bond creator Ian Fleming, and the two struck up a mutually beneficial relationship

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Newly Discovered Utah Dinosaur Looks Like a Cross Between a Triceratops and a Steer

Scientists have just described Nasutoceratops titusi, a new species of dinosaur whose Latin name means large-nosed horned face

A Weddell Seal sunbathes near Antarctica’s Ross Sea.

Instead of Being Protected, Antarctica’s Oceans Will Be Open for Fishing

A plan to protect millions of acres of Antarctic ocean was temporarily killed in a meeting yesterday

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Thieves Stole—And Maybe Burned—Millions of Dollars of Fine Art

Tens of millions of dollars of fine art may now be a pile of fine ash

A spiral well at El Brujo, near where the mummy was found

Archaeologists Find an Unusual Victim of Human Sacrifice in Peru

The young woman was either poisoned or strangled with a cord, then dumped into a pit

HIV-infected H9 T-cell Image

More HIV Patients Could Get Earlier Treatment

The World Health Organization issued HIV treatments that could impact the number of patients who receive drugs and other support for the condition

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Rare, Smelly Corpse Flower About To Bloom

The U.S. Botanic Garden is expecting to have a smelly week this week. Their Titan Arum, a flowering plant that rarely blooms, is set to unfurl any day now.

Flooded streets in Kolkata following heavy June rains Elsewhere in the country, flooding from the monsoon was much more extensive.

5,700 Dead As India Struggles With Changing Monsoon

As the climate changes, India’s monsoon is changing with it

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Wildflowers Can Get STDs, And This App Wants You to Help Track One

That’s right, flowers can get STD’s. And these scientists want your help figuring out how common one plant STD is

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